After waiting for a month to get some new snow and wanting to break the 480" mark for the season it finally happened the 1st day of spring with a whopping 2" making it 481" in 2007/2008 season.
Friday I met Ivan & Grant at the sno-park around 1pm and after getting loaded up we headed out to Trinity for a play weekend but we didn't make it far before the first challenge came up. After working on the sled and hopefully getting it in top shape it only made it about a mile so we reloaded what we had and left the sled on the side and headed on up, getting here around 4pm. Got unpacked and tok Ivan up to the settling tank so he could ski the pipeline a couple of times, then we went and played in the meadow on the sleds for a bit. Played some cribbage ate well and planned on getting across the river to ski Ice Cream on Sat morning. After a good breakfast Ivan & Grant and all of the dogs headed up the mountain to get in some skiing and as far as I know they are the first to ski where they did. That afternoon after having to go back up and look for one of Grant's bindings Ivan also found a new run Ice Cream scoop close to Ice Cream but better he said. They had a good time but then I towed Ivan up on Phelps Creek TH rd and he skied it a couple of times between him and grant they each got in several good runs each day along with playing on the sleds being able to go anywhere you want perfect spring conditions. We got up Sunday morning and planned to head up the James Creek draw and it started snowing around 6:30 very fine snow but that kept geting bigger and bigger and by 9:30 we already had gotten 3" of new snow and so after getting Grants ski fixed and me on snowshoes headed across the river again and over to James Creek where we found the waterfall and some beautiful runs here are a few photos of Ivan, Grant & myself on 3 Dog Run in James Creek. This was one of the best times here at Trinity with great friends and loads of fun, skiing, snowmobiling and cribbage along with great food.
While Ivan & grant skied on Ice Cream I had another visit from Rolph & his wife and the Wildfun gang, showed them the Bowling alley and settling tank and some beautiful scenery we ate hotdogs at the bowling alley then they headed back, it was great seeing them and they brought me a wonderful BD present, for which I'm very greatful. It seems that most people are giving up on snomobiling after this weekend and we ended up with 13" of beautiful POWder, what more could you ask for on the 1st weekend of spring.
We found our Paradise, hope you find your's too.
Well if you enjoyed the sunshine and warm temps in Feb and early Mar and were thinking it was spring, surprise, surprise, surprise, Mother Nature had other ideas. I can't say I'm surprised or unhappy about it, I can still snowmobile and play in the snow and the dogs love it too. Today is starting off just like Sunday did and we ended up getting 13" that day so who knows. Lately the pattern has been sunshine then snow, then sunshi9ne again and has been since last week when it started doing that. It took a long time to go over 480" and now heading closly to 500" for the season, not bad for being at 2800'. The dogs are loving the new snow and are really getting into hunting mode they've ben chasing the marten's trails and also found river otter in the river, now I know why they are gone for the long runs they take, once Peace gets on a trail she goes into auto mode and won't stop and her ears don't hear until she finds the source of what she smells. Life is great, enjoy every minute and you will never have regrets.
